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Real Madrid are nothing if not predictable. The Spanish club’s approach to
signing players provides a familiar beat to the transfer window, and the
pursuit of Gareth Bale is no different.

Step 1 Marca, the Madrid-based newspaper with close ties to the
Bernabéu, reveals the club’s interest in whichever target Florentino Pérez
and his executives — and occasionally his coach — have identified. Contrary
to received wisdom, Marca gets as many wrong as it does right — it
rightly predicted Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká, but also
proclaimed Real had signed Cesc Fàbregas, David Silva and David Villa — but
any name it